Patrick Beard: MusicAll things musical in nature...(Untitled)- December 17, 2002 I took a flute lesson from Guido Fazio at House of Woodwinds last week, to get an alternative view on how this instrument is supposed to be played. The single most useful thing he told me about the flute embouchure (how you hold your mouth) is to visualize yourself sucking on a thin straw. That puts your mouth in the right formation, then you blow with the same mouth position. Since that lesson, I've also been experimenting with my sax embouchure, hoping one day to wean myself of my wax &...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/music/2002/12/17.html#a60 (Untitled)- December 3, 2002 I recently posted a blurb about TuneXML in which I referred to a transcription of a tune in TuneXML format. It turns out that if you look at this with IE 5 on the Mac, you'll get a parse error. It parses and displays just fine in Chimera 0.6. The problems seems to stem from the inclusion of a Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) character at the beginning of the XML file, which is what you're supposed to include so that a UNICODE file is perfectly portable. This character seems to mess up IE 5.2.2.http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/music/2002/12/03.html#a58 (Untitled)- December 1, 2002 I've been thinking a lot about representing music in XML. There is a good survey of this topic here. MusicXML seems to be fairly dominant, and is getting commercial support behind it. Although, it isn't terribly easy to read and is quite verbose, it looks like a good interchange format, which is certainly a good use of XML. Still, it is overkill for how I want to use XML to represent music. My application is representing Jazz tunes, which consist of chords, melody, and sometimes lyrics. I...http://radio.weblogs.com/0102607/categories/music/2002/12/01.html#a57 |